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COMMUNITY
Oct 25, 2005

Helping out in the community

NPO, NGO listings Follows is the Tokyo area monthly English listing of nonprofit, NGO, CBO and community service events.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 25, 2005

Miyazato to join men

Japan LPGA star Ai Miyazato will compete on the Japanese men's tour at the Asia Japan Okinawa Open in December, tournament organizers said Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2005

Woman's body found in trunk of car

A woman's body was found Monday in the trunk of a car in a parking lot in Tama, western Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 25, 2005

How did you end up in Japan?

Paul Tronsgard Teacher, 26 My coming and living here was basically an accident. I was living in Hong Kong and thinking about moving on. I was debating where to go to next and my friends said, "Come to Tokyo" so I did and I've been here almost a year now.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 25, 2005

Japan sees beginning of change

Writer Alex Kerr first came to Japan in 1964, since when he has worked as a translator, art dealer and in real estate during the "bubble" economy.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2005

First-half net profit up at Kao

Kao Corp. said Monday its consolidated net profit in the April-September first half of the 2005 business year rose 1.9 percent over the same period the previous year to 38.49 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2005

Hitachi to merge three subsidiaries in integration plan

Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it will integrate Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co. and two other subsidiaries as well as its social and industrial infrastructure division on April 1.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 25, 2005

Shoichiro Satake

At 46, Shoichiro Satake, owner of Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, is Japan's biggest dealer of works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While more than 3,000 Warhols and 100 Basquiats have passed through his hands, their essence has stayed with him.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2005

Yamaha's electric cycles, Toshiba's 'Wearable Star' series, Naoto Fukasawa's Aroma Pot, AU's Penck, the Boing collection

When it comes to the promotion of design in Japan, there's hardly any honor more significant than the annual Good Design Award. Developed by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), each year the Good Design Award heralds the best of the best. In its 49th year, and with over 30,000...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 24, 2005

Triple bliss for Deep Impact

KYOTO -- Sunday saw the birth of Japan's sixth Triple Crown champion as Deep Impact rocked a record Kikkasho crowd of nearly 137,000 with a race that had hearts in mouths till the very end.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2005

Marines batter toothless Tigers

CHIBA -- The Chiba Lotte Marines keep losing bodies, but the Hanshin Tigers keep losing games.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2005

More waste at social security agency

Government auditors have found another potential waste of taxpayers' money in the Social Insurance Agency, which has come under fire over the past few years for budgetary oversights, Board of Audit sources said Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2005

Don't appease China: Machimura

Japan should establish a more equal relationship with China rather than always trying to appease its giant rival, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Sunday as he defended Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest visit to Yasukuni Shrine.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2005

U.S. Futenma plan gaining traction

The government is moving toward accepting the U.S. proposal for relocating the heliport operations of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, according to government sources.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 24, 2005

Government's policy yardstick should be based on per capita GDP, not GDP

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 advanced and emerging economies expressed strong concern Oct. 16 that high oil prices could decelerate growth and destabilize the global economy as they wrapped up their annual meeting on the outskirts of Beijing.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2005

How clear is Japan's future?

The editors of three leading British journals (The Times, The Financial Times and The Economist) have recently visited Japan and reported positively on Japan's economic prospects. They noted that Japan had largely recovered from "the lost decade." The Economist was bullish, heading its recent supplement...
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2005

Hiking consumption tax 'unavoidable,' Tanigaki says

The next prime minister will have to raise the consumption tax to pay for ballooning social security costs, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2005

Tired of military presence

As expected, U.S. base-relocation plans in Japan -- part of the U.S. strategy of global troop realignment -- are facing difficulties. Americans living near military bases at home may be opposed to cutbacks for fear of losing jobs, but people in Japan, an island country one-twenty-fifth the size of the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2005

Germany must be determined on reform: expert

Unless the forthcoming German government of conservative leader Angela Merkel bites the bullet and carries out painful reforms in a determined way, there will be no real domestic demand-led growth in the country, and its leadership in Europe will be limited, a German expert told a recent symposium in...
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2005

Child violence raises concern

Japan's primary-school children appear to have become more violent, according to statistics from a recent report by the Education and Science Ministry. To use a contemporary Japanese expression, they have become "kire-yasui." This expression, which literally means their "nerves tend to snap easily,"...
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 23, 2005

Alex free-kick helps Reds over Omiya

SAITAMA -- Japan international Alessandro Santos scored a stunning free-kick and set up another goal as Urawa Reds beat Omiya Ardija 3-1 in a bruising Saitama derby on Saturday.
Tropical Storm Shanshan soaks Japan as flood and landslide risks rise
People walk in front of closed ticket gates for the Tokaido Shinkansen in Tokyo Station as train operations between Tokyo and Nagoya remain suspended due to Tropical Storm Shanshan on Saturday.
Apparent suicide jumper falls onto pedestrian in Yokohama, killing both
Two women died near Yokohama Station on Saturday after one of them apparently fell from a building and landed on the other, who was walking below.
20% take no action over Nankai Trough quake warning
A shelf for emergency goods is seen almost empty at a hardware store in the city of Shizuoka on Aug. 9.
Slow-moving storm Shanshan downgraded to tropical depression
Elevated water levels on the Tama River in Kawasaki on Friday after Shanshan dumped torrential rain on wide areas of Japan.
Tokyo protests after Chinese Navy ship enters Japanese territorial waters
A Chinese Navy Shupang-class survey ship
Japan seeks another record-breaking defense budget for fiscal 2025
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force hold a live-fire exercise at the GSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May. Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking another record-breaking budget for fiscal 2025.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.
This English schoolboy has big dreams of becoming yokozuna — and more
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday. Tarasenko’s potential in sumo was made obvious when he won U18 gold in the 90-kg weight class at the 2023 Baruto Cup in Estonia despite being four years under the age limit and having only had a total of one hour of sumo training before the meet.
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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